ROYAL THEME: FOUR PLAQUES RELATING TO VICTORIA AND ALBERT AND TWO FURTHER
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ROYAL THEME: FOUR PLAQUES RELATING TO VICTORIA AND ALBERT AND TWO FURTHER
comprising:
1. A BRONZE PLAQUE OF QUEEN VICTORIA CAST FROM A ‘BOIS DURCI’ ORIGINAL, her diademed bust to left, 140mm., with a ‘bois durci’ original, in poor state;
2. PRINCE ALBERT: an oval bronze portrait plaque of Prince Albert, signed ‘Durrell’ and ‘Ronca’, his bust left, light patination, 147 x 134mm
3. PRINCE ALBERT: and an oval shell cameo of Prince Albert, to right 38.5 x 31.5mm.
Perhaps James Ronca (1826-1910), cameo cutter, pupil of Benedetto Pistrucci, exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1865-71; patronised by Queen Victoria.
4. ANTOINE VECHTE (1800-1868): A LARGE UNIFACE MEDAL MADE BY THE ELECTROTYPE PROCESS and in exquisite detail, to commemorate Pope Pius IX’s ‘Proclamation of the Immaculate Conception’, 1854, a standing figure of the Virgin Mary, hands crossed and nimbate, angelic figures and cherubs around, vignette portrait of Pius IX at bottom, 156mm., on circular oak mount;
5. ANTOINE VECHTE (1800-1868): AWARD: National Competition of the Students of All Art-Schools, awarded 1858, also by Vechte and made by the same process, small central bust of Queen Victoria left, surrounded by a continual scene of allegorical figures, named, ‘Alfred Copham - Stage IIIb’;
6. PIUS IX, and a small framed wax medallion of Pius IX, 1846, 110mm.
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Vechte came to London after the Revolution of 1848 soon working for Hunt & Roskell, who commissioned a specimen of this medal in gold. On retirement in 1861, he returned to France.
Literature: L. Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, London, 1904-1923, vol. VI, pp. 213-214, describes the first medallion as "marvellously beautiful" and states that Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman (1802-1865) noted that an example in gold was made for Hunt and Roskell.
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